Anne Lamott Quotes About Past

Quotes about: Past

• Forgiveness is giving up all hope of having had a better past.

  Anne Lamott

  Relationship, Giving Up, Past

• Gratitude begins in our hearts and then dovetails into behavior. It almost always makes you willing to be of service, which is where the joy resides. It means that you are willing to stop being such a jerk. When you are aware of all that has been given to you, in your lifetime and the past few days, it is hard not to be humbled, and pleased to give back.

  Anne Lamott

  Gratitude, Mean, Heart

  "Help, Thanks, Wow: The Three Essential Prayers". Book by Anne Lamott, November 13, 2012.

• ...the three things I cannot change are the past, the truth, and you.

  Anne Lamott

  Past, Three, Three Things

  Anne Lamott (2012). “Help, Thanks, Wow: The Three Essential Prayers”, p.14, Penguin

• Try to write in a directly emotional way, instead of being too subtle or oblique. Don't be afraid of your material or your past. Be afraid of wasting any more time obsessing about how you look and how people see you. Be afraid of not getting your writing done.

  Anne Lamott

  Writing, Past, Emotional

• Prayer is talking to something or anything with which we seek union, even if we are bitter or insane or broken. (In fact, these are probably the best possible conditions under which to pray.) Prayer is taking a chance that against all odds and past history, we are loved and chosen, and do not have to get it together before we show up.

  Anne Lamott

  Prayer, Past, Odds

  Anne Lamott (2013). “Help, Thanks, Wow”, p.8, Hachette UK

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